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BUILDINGS AT KEENE NORMAL 


}TUDENTS who are expecting to enter normal school next fall will be interested in the new 


dormitory at Keene, which will be in use in September, and which we also expect to use for 


the coming summer session, July 8 to August 18. The cut shows the dormitory as it will look 
when completed. At present only the central section and the left wing are under construction. The 
central section contains the dining-room and parlor, each two stories in height and separated by a carved 
oak screen. The lighting of these rooms will be wholly indirect, and with the two enormous fireplaces, 
eight large windows twelve feet high and a window seat across the entire front, they promise to be 
unequalled in attractiveness by any other public school equipment in New England. The kitchen, students 
laundry, pantries, and other service rooms are in the basement. Over the dining room are students 
rooms and the entire wing, except the matron's suite and two guest rooms, is used for students rooms. 

The protection against fire is ample. Fire walls extend to the roof between the central section and 
the wing and between the two sections of the wing, making practically three separate buildings in one. 
All stairways are constructed of iron and concrete and enclosed in brick walls. The corridors are of 
brick with concrete floors, and the floors over the laundry and kitchen are of reinforced concrete. 

Each dormitory section has four rooms on each floor accommodating eight girls, and each group of 
eight has its own bath and toilet room with shower baths. There are a few single rooms and two suites 
accommodating three girls each. The present junior class have drawn lots for the choice of rooms and the 
remaining rooms will be assigned to the entering class in order of application. The price of board has 
been fixed by the trustees at $4.50 per week for both New Hampshire normal schools for next year. 
One-half of this is payable at the beginning of each semester. 


HE new school building which is 


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ber, in addition to ample class rooms, will 


ready for occupancy in Septem- 


contain three modern laboratories, one for 
nature study, one for domestic science and 
a lecture room laboratory fitted with a 
stereopticon and radiopticon—an ample hall 
with a large stage for lectures and dramatic 


entertainments. The stage is of fireproof 


construction with an asbestos curtain. The 


THE GYMNASIUM 


hall will also contain a fireproof booth for 
a moving picture machine to be used with instructive films. Ventilation 1s provided by an electric fan 
system. This building is at right angles to the dormitory facing Keene's beautiful Main street on one side 
and on the other with the dormitory forming two sides of the inner quadrangle (see catalog opposite page 
45) where there are generous provisions for athletics, including out-door basket ball, quoits, croquet and 
archery. The two tennis courts now being finished will be as fine as any in the state. These will be 
flooded for skating during the winter. 

On the other side of the quadrangle is the greenhouse (see catalog page FAR EA feet long and 25 feet 
wide, which with the adjoining school gardens offers a most unusual equipment for nature study and 
elementary agriculture. 

The present school building, the historic Hale House (see catalog frontispiece ) will continue in service, 


the lower floor serving for offices and administration rooms. The second floor will be remodeled as a 


library and reading room, and 
the third floor, with its splendid 
north light, is to serve as an art 
room for all drawing classes. In 
this building will also be located 
the school museum. 

The present manual training 
building will be used for winter 
gymnastics and folk dancing. In 
the fall and spring all physical 
exercises are taken out of doors 
in the form of games. 

Penelope House, which occu- 
ples the south western corner of 
the five acre campus, is used as 


a domestic science laboratory 


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PENELOPE HOUSE, APPIAN WAY 


for advanced classes. Four girls room here with the domestic science teacher as chaperon. The kitchen, 


dining room and parlor afford opportunities for many more forms of real housekeeping art than are possible 


in a laboratory. Here also the girls of the domestic art classes may hold receptions, teas and fudge parties 


for their friends. A special circular of the domestic arts course will be sent on request. 


The principal's residence and stable (see catalog following page 32) are located in the south eastern 


corner of the campus. The heating plant with two 125 horse power boilers completes the building equipment. 


Four buildings containing four hundred and fifty pupils are used as practice schools. 


